Army of the Mississippi

GPTKB entity

Properties (48)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf military unit
gptkbp:activeDuring 1861
1863
gptkbp:affiliation gptkb:Confederate_Army
gptkbp:country gptkb:Confederate_States_of_America
gptkbp:disbanded 1863
gptkbp:engagements gptkb:American_Civil_War
gptkbp:headquarters gptkb:Jackson,_Mississippi
gptkbp:historicalFigures gptkb:General_William_T._Sherman
gptkb:General_P.G.T._Beauregard
gptkb:General_John_C._Pemberton
gptkb:General_William_J._Hardee
gptkb:General_Richard_Taylor
gptkb:General_Stephen_D._Lee
gptkb:General_Edmund_Kirby_Smith
gptkb:General_Leonidas_Polk
gptkb:General_John_C._Breckinridge
gptkb:General_Braxton_Bragg
gptkb:General_Joseph_E._Johnston
gptkb:General_Ulysses_S._Grant
gptkb:General_John_Bell_Hood
gptkb:General_John_B._Hood
gptkb:General_John_S._Bowen
gptkb:General_John_A._Wharton
gptkb:General_John_H._Forney
General John Pemberton
gptkbp:historicalSignificance Vicksburg Campaign
Union blockade
control_of_the_Mississippi_River
Southern_strategy
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Army of the Mississippi
gptkbp:legacy Civil War history
gptkbp:logistics supply issues
gptkbp:motto “Victory_or_Death”
gptkbp:notableBattle Battle of Jackson
Battle of Vicksburg
Battle of Champion Hill
Battle of Port Gibson
gptkbp:notableFeature gptkb:Louisiana_Infantry
gptkb:Mississippi_Infantry
gptkb:Alabama_Infantry
gptkb:Texas_Cavalry
General John Pemberton
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:Confederate_States_Army
gptkbp:reform 1862
gptkbp:size approximately 30,000 troops
gptkbp:successor gptkb:Department_of_Mississippi_and_East_Louisiana
gptkbp:tactics defensive operations